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Brendan Gill Biography

Brendan GillAge: 83author, preservationist The quintessential urban society man, Gill wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. A champion of architectural preservation and other…

Fausto Vitello 2006 Deaths

Fausto VitelloAge: 59 maverick skateboarder and publisher who, in the late 1970s, helped to popularize street skateboarding—using curbs, steps, and railings to launch jumps and tricks—with…

Idi Amin 2003 Deaths

Idi AminAge: 80 mercurial Ugandan military dictator whose brutal, tyrannical rule left his country economically and socially devastated. Human rights groups estimate that he ordered the…

Bo Jackson

Bo JacksonBorn: Nov. 30, 1962Baseball OF and Football RB won Heisman Trophy in 1985 and MVP of baseball All-Star Game in 1989; starter for both baseball's KC Royals and NFL's LA Raiders in…

Isabel Allende Biography

Isabel AllendeAuthorBorn: 8/2/1942Birthplace: Lima, Peru The daughter of a diplomat, best-selling author Isabel Allende spent her childhood in South America, Europe, and the Middle East. As a…

Billy Crudup Biography

Billy Crudup actorBorn: 7/8/1968Birthplace: Manhasset, New York Critically acclaimed actor whose Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (1995) earned him an Outer Critics Circle Award. His…

William ROCKHILL, Congress, IN (1793-1865)

ROCKHILL William , a Representative from Indiana; born in Burlington, N.J., February 10, 1793; attended the public schools; moved to Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1822; engaged in agricultural pursuits…

Other PBA Tournaments, 2006

Earl Anthony Medford Classic—Brian Himmler 214, Mika Koivuniemi 204Dick Weber Open—Jason Couch 241, Park Bohn III 214Motel 6 Phoenix Classic—Ritchie Allen 232, Del Ballard Jr. 207Jackson…

U.S. News: Petraeus Resigns as CIA Director

  Major U.S. news stories, from the President Election to the Chicago Teachers' Strike General David Petraeus and author Paula Broadwell Related Links 2012 Year in Review…

Annette Funicello

Annette FunicelloactressBorn: 10/22/1942Birthplace: Utica, New York Television and film actress who gained early fame as a perky Mouseketeer on television's The Mickey Mouse Club (1955–57…